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15 famous people found
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Francis DRAKE
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
1540 - 1596 -
Fletcher Christian
English seaman who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789
1764 - 1793 -
James COOK
English explorer, navigator and cartographer
1728 - 1779 -
Philip CARTERET
British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764-66 and 1766-69
1733 - 1796 -
Richard GRENVILLE
English Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Soldier, High Sheriff of County Cork, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, Privateer, Sheriff of Cornwall, Colonizer, and explorer
1542 - 1591 -
John ROSS
British naval officer and Arctic explorer
1777 - 1856 -
James Clark ROSS
British naval officer and explorer remembered today for his exploration of the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry
1800 - 1862 -
Walter RALEIGH
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer
1552 - 1618 -
Thomas CAVENDISH
English explorer and a privateer
1560 - 1592 -
Richard HAWKINS
English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog"
1562 - 1622 -
Alexander Spotswood
British Army officer, explorer and lieutenant governor of Colonial Virginia
1676 - 1740 -
Bartholomew Gosnold
English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America
1571 - 1607 -
William BRADFORD
English Separatist who emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620
1589 - 1657 -
Charles STURT
British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia
1795 - 1869 -
Martin FROBISHER
English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage
1535 - 1594